 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 904 pages
...and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like ; so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in...differences,* let him study the schoolmen, for they are ' cyrnini sectores ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 902 pages
...riding for the head, and the like ; so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathcntafrca, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never...the schoolmen, for they are 'cymini sectores;" if he apt to beat over matters, and to call upon ono thing to prove trate another, let him study the lawyers'.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 660 pages
...Pulchrorum auturanus pulcher," cited from Euripides (as Mr. Wright remarks) by Plut. Alcib. i. Essay L. " If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences,...study the schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores." In the Advancement of Learning, i. 77, Bacon remarks that Antoninus Pius was called cymini sector,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let...again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find 1 quos deglutire cursimque legere oportet. s penitus insipidi. * scripiio autem, et notarum collectio,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So, if a man's wits be wandering, ht him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations,...again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences,5 let him study the schoolmen, for they are ' cymini sectores ;' 7 if he be not apt to... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and the like ; .so if a man's wit be wandering, let...the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit bo called away never so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find... | |
 | James Wills (of Upton.) - 1864 - 282 pages
...impossible to say too much on the importance of algebra and Euclid. Bacon observes that, " If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away ever so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like ; so, if a man's wit be wandering, let...differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are ' cumini sectores ' [' dividers of cummin seed '] ;2 if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to... | |
 | John Tulloch - Conduct of life - 1866 - 308 pages
...and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So. if a man's wit be wandering, let...distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove or illustrate another, let... | |
 | Dennis de Berdt Hovell - 1866 - 138 pages
...preventing and neutralizing the good effects of teaching. "So if a man's wits be wandering," says Bacon, "let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations,...called away never so little, he must begin again." Nothing could illustrate more strongly the importance of soundness of matter before extent of subject.... | |
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Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called... 
